(2006-08-06)
Mandated by the Council of
Indigenous Peoples, a draft of the "Act on the Protection of the
Traditional Knowledge of Indigenous Peoples Concerning
Biodiversity" has been proposed. The drafters are Ming-Yan Shieh,
Warren H.J. Kuo, Jau-Hwa Chen and Chung-His Lee.

(2006-01-04) Mandated
by the Council of Agriculture, the first edition of the draft on the
Genetic Resources Act has been finished; booklet "Access and
Benefit sharing on Genetic Resources" has been written, and sent to
stakeholders. (the
draft; English edition not yet available)

(2005-02-01)A
Japan-Taiwan bilateral symposium,
“Legal
Protection of Biotechnology: Bioethics and Biotherapy"
will be held at Hokkaido University on 2005-02-22. Programme

(2005-01-21)Basic law of the Indigenous Peoples has been passed by
the Legislative Yuan on 21 Jan 2005.Among the Clauses, Article 13 states clearly that the government
should protect by acts the knowledge concerning conservation of
biodiversity and intellectual creations of the indigenous peoples.In Article 22, land exploration, resources utilization,
ecological conservation and academic research should be subjected to prior
informed consent of and/or participation of the indigenous peoples.
Mechanism of benefit–sharing of any profit that arising from the
commercial utilization should be established.

(2004-08-14)Forum
"The
Evolution of the IP-system, especially inBiotechnology-European
and Asian Perspectives"
will be held on 2004-08-17/18. (Hanken
School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland)